Gigabyte's taking on the enthusiast market

NJORN 3D checks the Chenbro Gaming Bomb II case. In some places, it is sold as a G5 Mac Look alike casing, which is not a bad thing in itself. It is an expensive casing but with quality and specs to match it. The list of pros Bjorn3D lists is frankly impressive, only matched by two cons - the price and the fact that it is not very quiet.

Gigabyte's new water cooling system, the Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Liquid Cooling kit, in its retail box is under review at VR-zone. Also included is the 3D Aurora case which is a definite clue showing where Gigabyte is heading in the peripheral sector. The casing is particularly intriguing, showing Gigabyte's expertise in the domain. Twin 120mm fans, cable management, screw box, tool-less design and even two water holes help making it a superb case overall.

Accelerated.com tests the XFX 7800GTX video card. It is pricey, has a so-so software bundle but offers a stunning perfomance coupled with two DVI ports. Voila. Tried to access the rest of the site but it seems that accelerated.com is down at the moment.

Another version of the card, the Leadtek Winfast PX7800 GTX TDH is under review at German Website TweakPC. Since it is in German and my translators do a bad job of translating to English, you might have to decipher it by youself. But I do guess that its positive points are that overclocking is covered by Leadtek way policy, that it has a superb gaming bundle and that it comes with two DVI to VGA adapters.

Rage3D which as far as I remember covered ATI content originally, switched this time to nVidia with the Archrival 7800GTX being reviewed. There is very little to be criticize on the technical side with this card - apart from the price, performance and design are absolutely first class. Even two X850XT in Crossfire will have a difficult time trying to compete. The ATI fanboy acknowledges the job done by nVidia in order to make transition from 6800 Ultra to 7800 as painless as possible. He's vanquished.

Yet another Geforce 7800GTX review, this time from Beyond3D in the form of the BFG Tech Geforce 7800 GTX OC. Don't forget that the card is overclocked by default and that this guaranteed overclocked is backed up by BFG's own lifetime warranty. As mentionned some time back, you also get games, t-shirt, mousepads etc on top of a perfomance to match the price. My bet, buy yourself the cheapest 7800GTX available. µ